dg meets world

Today my friend Malte sent me a link to a funny page.

The page is about Engrish, which means (according to Wikipedia) the following:

Engrish refers to non-standard variations of English often found in East Asian countries. Spelling may also be non-standard. While the term may refer to spoken English, it is more often used to describe written English, for which problems are easier to identify and publicize. The term arises from an ambiguity between the “r” and “l” sounds in the spoken Japanese language, although the Chinese language frequently sees the “l” substituted for “r” in foreign loanwords. Engrish has been found on everything from poorly translated signs, menus, and instruction manuals to bizarrely worded advertisements and strange t-shirt slogans.

And here I present you some examples found in Japan:

Head over to engrish.com to find more hilarious translations, not only from Japan, but from all over Asia!

Just found this:

Japan’s lingerie maker Triumph International Japan… displays the “Konkatsu Bra” or “Husband hunting Bra”… to encourage women to hunt husband [sic] …

(via and via)

Words can not describe the awesomenesscraziness of this crapinvention.

And of course, that is not the end of the story! There is more! For example the “Chopstick Bra”, which seems quite useful.

And than there is the eco-friendly solar bra. I kid you not!

Japan, land of the killer robots from outer-spacebras for the eccentric woman.

A fellow student just showed me that I can play sudoku with my Casio EX-Word Dataplus 4 XD-GP7150 and my guess is, that this works with other Caiso EX-Word models, too.

So, here is how you start the game:

• go to the main menu. (via “メニュー” key)
• go to the right until you reach “脳鍛アプリ”
• select “脳鍛アプリ　数字パズル” and press 決定 (the “Return” button)
• select “数字パズル　スタンダード編” and press 決定
• select your skill level (like beginner, normal, hardcore) or if you want to continue an previously paused game and press 決定
• read the instructions (to lazy to translate, you’ll figure it out on your own) and press 決定 to start
• have fun

Here is how you end or leave the game:

• press 決定 or 戻る to bring up the game menu
• select the 2nd entry if you want to leave the game with saving
• select the 3rd entry if you want to leave the game without saving

Here is another tip: if you look for example sentences from German->Japanese direction (独和大 button) with the 文例検索 (3rd line) and you already know 2 or more words that have to be in that example sentence you just can join them togehter with the ampersand (&). Example “geld&macht” (w/o the quotationmarks). That will give you 4 example sentence instead of over 500 for “geld” alone.

Hope this helps you. Have some fun.

PS: If you know some more nice tricks or program options, please leave a comment! Thank you!

Just found this hilarious text by an American English teacher living and working in Japan.

The crowd went batshit insane. An entire horde of girls zerg-rushed their way to any point that could give them a decent view of the stage, screaming like banshees in the process.

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I usually consider Japanese obasan to be an enemy of mine. Mostly because they’re unnaturally strong and do not fear death. Much like Klingons.

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In the unfortunate event that I get dragged again next year, I’m bringing my laptop, a good DVD, and riot gear.

The Devil IS Prada: Retribution

You really should check out his archive, starting with his perverted school kids.

And here are, albeit from another fashion show I guess, some pretty neat pictures!